L’Alliance New York announces a screening of Twelfth Night or What You Will (La Nuit des rois ou Tout ce que vous voulez), set for Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 7PM at the Florence Gould Theater, L’Alliance New York, 55 East 59th Street, New York, NY, 10022. Tickets start at $15.

Twelfth Night or What You Will
One of Europe’s preeminent theater directors, Thomas Ostermeier is a world-renowned interpreter of Shakespeare, perhaps most famously for his acclaimed 2008 production of Hamlet. Ostermeier’s inaugural production of the Bard’s classic comedy Twelfth Night or What You Will (La Nuit des rois ou Tout ce que vous voulez) brings the director’s signature physicality, textual rigor, and distinctly modern sensibility to his first collaboration with the Comédie-Française. The run time is three hours with no intermission. Tickets can be purchased at https://lallianceny.org/event/twelfth-night-or-what-you-will/.

Please note that a 10-minute pre-recorded interview precedes the start of the play.
This performance contains nudity and scenes that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

Production Credits
Twelfth Night (La Nuit des rois ou Tout ce que vous voulez)
by William Shakespeare
Adaptation and direction: Thomas Ostermeier
Translation: Olivier Cadiot
Set and costumes: Nina Wetzel
Lights: Marie-Christine Soma
Original music and music direction: Nils Ostendorf
Choreography: Glysleïn Lefever
Fight choreography: Jérôme Westholm
Dramaturg and assistant director: Elisa Leroy
Assistant dramaturg: Christian Longchamp
Assistant to sets and costumes: Charlotte Spichalsky

With:
Denis Podalydès: Orsino, Duke of Illyria
Laurent Stocker: Sir Toby Haut LeCoeur, Olivia’s kinsman
Stéphane Varupenne: Feste, Olivia’s jester
Adeline d’Hermy: Countess Olivia
Georgia Scalliet: Viola, disguised as Cesario
Sébastien Pouderoux: Malvolio and Priest
Noam Morgensztern: Antonio and Valentin
Anna Cervinka: Maria, Olivia’s lady-in-waiting
Christophe Montenez: Sir Andrew Gueule de Fièvre, friend of Sir Toby
Julien Frison: Sébastien, Viola’s twin brother
Yoann Gasiorowski: Curio, Ship Captain, and Officer

And:
Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Paul Figuier: Counter-tenor
Clément Latour, Damien Pouvreau: Theorbo
© Comédie-Française – France 2019 | Worldwide distribution: Pathé Live
In association with: Bel Air Média
Directed by Corentin Leconte

About L’Alliance New York
As an independent, not-for-profit organization, L’Alliance is committed to providing members and students with engaging French language classes and audacious multi-disciplinary programming that celebrates the diversity of francophone cultures and creativity around the world.

A welcoming and inclusive community for all ages and backgrounds, L’Alliance New York cultivates a space where people can meet, learn, explore the richness of heritage, and share discoveries. They strive to amplify voices and build bridges from the entire francophone world to New York and beyond.

L’Alliance New York’s history began in 1898 when the Alliance Française established a chapter here in New York City. In 1911, francophile New Yorker MacDougal Hawkes founded the Museum of French Art, French Institute, and opened a space in 1925 inside a beautiful Beaux-Arts building at 22 East 60th Street, where L’Alliance still operates. In 1971, the two institutions combined to create the French Institute Alliance Française, now known as L’Alliance New York.

As a product of this union, L’Alliance is infused with the spirit of the original French Institute. Designed to serve as a museum, library, and intellectual and social club for New York’s francophone community, the French Institute is a place where all are welcome – a place of community, culture, support, and festivity.

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